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Mason Williams was the musical director of the Smothers Brothers show. Another great instrumental “A Taste of Honey “ by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
I loved Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass when I was young. I had "The Lonely Bull" which, iirc, was their first album. I suspect I first saw them on some US variety show like the Smothers Brothers who I knew because my sister owned their "Live at the Purple Onion" album. For those who don't know them, the Smothers Brothers were a comedy folk music duo who infamously ran afoul of, I want to say, CBS censors for a variety of reasons including to their opposition to the Vietnam War.
I saw Mason Williams a couple of times on the Smothers Brothers TV show. He sang another hit on the show, "Cinderella Rockefella", which is more of a nostalgic, corny song.
I always think of MW as a comedy writer first and a musician second.
@@keithdf2001 Correct. He was an Emmy-winning staff writer for the Smothers Brothers show, not the musical director (though he did co-write the theme song).
@@bobholtzmann I have memories of Mason Williams performing this song with a clear guitar that had goldfish swimming around.
I was 7 years old. Mom was driving me to the Dairy Queen.
Mom had a 1964 Chevy Malibu SS convertible, and the top was down.
The radio station was KXOK-AM 630.
I heard this song, and fell in love with it.
It’s still in my top 5 favorite songs - and I’m 61 years old now.
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This one is a joy to play on the guitar!! It's not the most difficult tune out there, but Tommy Emmanuel does an insane ramped-up-to-eleven version. Very epic and virtually unmatched, in it's fingerstyle guitar skills.
Every rendition he does is different in some way, improved as he goes. Any one of his videos is worth the look.
Classical Gas was the first thing I ever saw Tommy Emmanuel perform in the early '90s. It blew my mind and I've been a huge fan ever since. Much better than the original imo.
@@kevinhodgson2990 He has certainly made this his own.
Emmanuel is bombastic in his playing. Way overrated.
Easily one of my favorite instrumentals from the 60s. Great reaction, my friend! 👍🏾
Probably the first song on the radio that raised my interest in music
I have loved this since it came out. It made it onto the top 40 music stations at the time. I had no idea of the involvement of the Wrecking Crew.
I ither… learning all the time.
Yeah, isn't that such a cool thing to find out?
Love Mason Williams! That was the great thing about the 1960s and '70s-you never knew what you were going to hear on Top 40 radio. One minute you were listening to Motown; the next it was bubble gum pop; the next it was Southern rock; the next it was...this!
PS Mason Williams played "Silent Night" (which was originally composed for guitar in 1818) at my church one Christmas Eve. I was lucky to be in the church choir at the time and was only a few feet away. Magical!
From the era that gave us Switched On Bach. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.
For someone who was alive at the time (I was 7-8 years old), this piece is a snapshot in time. Whenever I hear it, it instantly takes me back in time. I loved it immediately, and it had everything you could want in a piece of music. But, we all know along with the transformative rock music coming out, it was just the beginning of very exciting things yet to come.
First heard this on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour back in the day
Covered by many… Glen Campbell does it well. He was a member of the real Crew.
Joyfully bopping in my desk chair!
The year this came out is of note, 1968...that year and the next couple of years after in pop music was infused almost universally with brass backings either in part or throughout the tracks. Rock tracks, pop tunes, even R&B had a brass bit or two accenting the piece. This had, obviously , a symphonic or orchestra backing but the brass fills tells me it is of that late 60s very early 70s time period, almost like a time stamp. This was a monster pop hit out of nowhere at that time and by an unknown artist-a real stroke of lightning for this guy. He never really matched it after that. I loved it then, still love it today. Thanks for stepping back for another good one. I don't think without those brass crescendos it becomes QUITE as big of a hit, but that's my speculation.
Hey Justin ~ Anyone who played the guitar in the late '60s and '70s HAD to know how to play this song. It was one of those "must haves" in your playing repertoire. I was completely enthralled with it when it first came out. It's such a beautiful and very flowing song. I remember working on this in '71 at the age of 12 when I finally got the sheet music for it. It's not a difficult piece, though like any music, it takes some practice to get it down. Check out the rest of that album. I think you'll like it. =)
That put a smile on your face!! 😄
Haha definitely!
Man I was really- REALLY young when this came out, and it STILL had a profound enough effect on me that I love it to this day!
HEY JP!! Speaking of EPIC pieces…
I’d LOVE to see YOUR REACTION to MISTRAL WIND by HEART! A genius, genuinely EPIC PIECE that’s somehow been overlooked by all but their serious fans! (Serious enough to grow up on the Eastside in the 70s when Heart-a BELLEVUE BAND-was blowing up!) They were bigger than life & proof we could make it!
You’ll LOVE THE INTRICATE, COMPLEX & DARK PHRASING!! 👊🍻
As ever…STILL digging the ride & your perpetual aural explorations!
I just had a listen, cause I'm always curious to know how bands sounded before they became world famous. And if Mistral Wind is anything to go by then Heart sounded pretty good. Evocative vocals perfectly suited to the lyrics, and a beautifully restrained climax that melted into a haunting outro. So thanks for the recommendation and have a great day.
Minstel Wind is gorgeous and haunting! I second it!
Oh, my goodness @redfishradical ! Thank you for mentioning this. Such a lovely, powerful deep cut from Heart; big fan here & this is the track to listen to if you really want to know their talent from JUST ONE song @JustJP. They were one of many huge influences that shaped my musical education. ♥👏
When Mason performed this song on the Smothers Brothers TV show, it was accompanied by an interesting video with famous works of art flashing very fast.
Yeah, I still remember that. The Smothers really liked him, and he worked on the show before he hit big.
This and Love is Blue were two of the great instrumental hits from the 60's that never get old.
Check out Tommy Emmanuel performing this song. Mind altering.
Believe it or not, this was actually a top 40 radio hit in the '60s.
ANYTHING that The Wrecking Crew attaches their name to is QUALITY PLUS! Always love hearing this song... Great reaction, Justin!
Damn! I forgot all about this.
Thanks for playing/reaction.
Hi JP. Dave from Across The Ocean. Love this song. Don't know the album, but I bought the single back in the day. I played the guitar at the time, but this was beyond me. All those ascending chords - aargh! When I first saw Yes, in 1971 on The Yes Album tour, Steve Howe played this as well as Clap in his solo spot.
#62 on my Top 100 list. Merry Christmas to me!! LOL!
I remember watching him play this on the Smothers Brothers show in the late sixties, and then again on an episode of Evening At Pops with The Boston Pops Orchestra. This was around '88. I was spellbound both times. Just magnificent.
Merry Christmas, Justin!
Still lovin' the channel!
KMOX-TV used this for the Evening News, [ in part, thanks to me. Mom worked at KMOX, and one day I was in the Break Room, this came on my pocket radio just as the News Director came in. I raved about the song. He nodded his head.
About a week later, when the news came on - Classical Gas was used ❗️
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Loved this song since I first heard it when I was a kid
Classic song - it was a big hit in its day. The album doesn't have any potential hits other than this one. It's more a collection of short sketchy songs. One of them, "Long Time Blues", is interesting in that the Beatles might have used a bit of it for "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". The album cover shows a book Mason published in 1967 called Bus. It doesn't have any pages, but instead is a poster folded out to the size of a Greyhound bus.
I used to play this song on the piano as a teenager back in the day. I loved it so much and played it so often, my Mom finally comes in and says "Please stop. This song is giving me classical gas."
One of your best lyrics analysis.
This instantly became my favorite song when I was 15...And years later, I was finally able to play it (mostly) on my guitar. I still love the song. I think it holds the record for most covers. And Mason Williams--what a story. Head comedy writer for the Smothers Brothers--and the original SNL show. And as someone else has said: check out the version done by Tommy Emmanuel. Wow.
Isn’t this just the best little pick me up? Just fantastic. FYI, this song was very popular and other artists have done it. Search for the Steve Howe version. I know you appreciate his playing.
Steve Howe covered it? 😮 Well, I don't have all his solo albums.
@@wardka He tells a story of showing Eric Clapton parts of it while they were waiting at an airport.
@@wardka I don’t think it made an album. Just a live performance… search TH-cam.
Mason Williams was also a writer for SNL in their early days and appeared in numerous sketches. There’s an electronic cover of this song from 1976 that I love from Synergy (Larry Fast…a keyboardist for Peter Gabriel and many others) off the Sequencer album.
Mason Williams did an excellent bluegrass album under the name Mason Williams & the Santa Fe Recital called 'Fresh Fish'. Probably not the stuff for your channel but it is nevertheless good music.
My mum loved this. It's pretty cool. She always turned it up. I like it too.
Wonderful piece! In the late Sixties/early Seventies, the horn movement was used on local tv for the "Championship Wrestling" theme, which is probably where a lot of us NorthCoasters were first exposed to it.
Mason Williams was the musical director for The Smothers Brothers Show, and yes, all the musicians below played on the track you sampled.
The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
(c) 1968 WEA International, Inc.
Produced - Mike Post
Arranged - Mike Post
Engineer - Michael Lietz
Sound Effects - Phil Kaye
Original Art Direction - Ed Thrasher
Cover Photo - Jerry White
Reprographics - Mimeo Limited
Song 7 - Classical Gas
Composer - Mason Williams
THE WRECKING CREW members were:
Drums - James Beck Gordon
Bass (Elec) - Lawrence Knechtel, Lyle Ritz, Bob West
Percussion - Gary L. Coleman, Gene Estes
Piano - Lawrence Knechtel, Michael Meloin
Guitars - James Burton, Michael Deasy, David Cohen, Alvin Casey
Harp - Gail Levant
Upright Bass - Lyle Ritz
Accordion - Carl Fortina
French Horns & Tuben - David Duke, William Hinshaw
Trombones - Lew McCreary, Richard Leith, Richard J. Hyde, Hoyt Bohannon
Celli - Jesse Ehrlich, Joe DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Jerome Kessler
Woodwinds - Tommy Scott, Jim Horn
Violins - Sidney Sharp, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Tibor Zelig, Jimmy Getzoff, Israel Baker, Stan Plummer, Jack Gootkin, Robert Korda, George East, Emmanuel Moss, Harry Bluestone, Jerry Reisler, John Vidor, Robert Sushel, David Burk, Stan Cornyn
Hi JP. Great piece of music and beautifully played. Hank Marvin (from The Shadows) liked to play this in the UK in the 70s
Now, you are a man…
Write, Wright, right, writ of passage, one of has got to be right, write or writ.
Anyway, heard thousands of times on radio, tv shows, streaming into my young lil brain.
Probably my first classicalesqe guitar crush.
Mike Post makes so much sense, didn’t know that factoid. Great choice this.
If you liked that, you'll LOVE this version - Tommy Emmanual - th-cam.com/video/S33tWZqXhnk/w-d-xo.html
I never listened to this with headphones before.
THAT WAS FANTASTIC!!! 🎶❤️🎧❤️🎶
It was a big hit on the "mature" radio stations. It was a movie soundtrack sort of thing. It was basically something your parents listened to if they liked music, but still sort of square. It's better than Ray Conniff, Trini Lopez, 50 guitars, and some of the folky non-rock sort of thing, but sort of in the same genre, but still not as hip as Al Hirt's Java, or the surf stylings of the Ventures from the previous decade. Lots of people liked to play it on the guitar cuz it sounds more complex than it really is. A number of high school jazz bands would play it. The rest of the album -- no one pays any attention to it, but that's not uncommon for that era. Mason Williams was more or less a musical arranger, which is why this has a Hawaii 5-0 esque TV show sound to it. Harold Battiste, also an arranger for the wrecking crew would have layered a more "funky" or "jazz" element to it. It's a style thing. If you like the Hawaii 5-0 theme song, then you'd like Classical Gas. For me, it doesn't hold as much over time, yet it's a nice piece of music. In the timeframe of Classical Gas there was a "rediscovery" of earlier forms of music in popular music. The ragtime classic for the movie The Sting, which is essentially Scott Joplin's The Entertainer was released in 1970 is the perfect example along with a number of other takes and outright steals of classical music and folk music. (Eric Carmen's All by Myself and Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair are examples of outright thievery). In cultural US, Renaissance Fairs were popping up and rustic home decor was as well with mid-century modern going out of style.
Wrecking Crew had a lot of great artists. If you get to see the movie "Wrecking Crew" which was made by Tommy Tedesco's son Denny, do it. It's a window into corporate music of the 60s and 70s, and Capitol's dominance in the music field in that era. That doesn't mean that those musicians weren't great. They were. My favorite scene is Tommy Tedesco playing the same piece music over and over in a response to corporate asking for music that gives different ethnic "feel." The best takeaway from the movie for me personally was that "ah-a" moment when I finally figured out the connection between Glenn Campbell and Allen Toussaint (It's not in the movie -- I always wondered how Toussaint's unrecorded song "Southern Nights" ended up with Glenn Campbell -- I realized that because of the number of New Orleans musicians, and Harold Battiste were part of the stable of Capitol's essential musicians -- Plas Johnson, Earl Palmer, Dr. John, and others -- and Toussaint's success with Yes We Can Can with the Pointer Sisters allowed for that connection to be had with Glenn as a member of the crew. )
Another classic, Justin. Hit 'Like' straight off. I knew there was no way on God's green earth you would not like this one.
You REALLY want to see Mason showing off his guitar chops? -- find the acoustic version of 'Classical Gas' (it's on YT). It's just him and his guitar and none of the overbearing orchestration of this version. Just his virtuosity shining through.
I remember my older brother listening to this over and over and picking his through it on his guitar. The late 60's was a cool time for creativity in music.
JP, this was a very big hit and one of my favorite songs of the 60s. Could you imagine a song like this even close to being a hit these days? Watching your videos make me realize over and over again just how fortunate I was to have had all this diverse music be a part of my life. This song came out when I was 12 and I instantly took to it. Classical Gas came in at #43 in the Billboard top 100 songs of 1968 so I think it's safe to say it was a huge hit and it deserved it. BTW, there is this song from a guy who was in another band from the 60s, you might have heard of him, Pete Townsend, you should hear his song "Give Blood" from the White City album, you'll be happy you did... Keep up the great work and have a great Christmas.
When I was kid this was all over the place. Besides the radio it was used as intros on TV for sports and news programs.
Another 60s classic!
You should totally listen to Tommy Emmanuel play this.
There's a video on YT of Glen Campbell playing this live in front of an orchestra - worth checking out.
This tune was introduced to the world on the Smothers Brothers comedy show. It featured a montage of famous artworks flashing on the screen. It was one of the first music videos ever. It was an immediate hit. Many years ago I attended a "star party", an event where amateur astronomers spend several days and night observing the sky. I set up my telescope next to a guy named Ed who happened to be best friends with Mason Williams. Ed was a retired audio engineer who once worked in Muscle Shoals. Although he and Williams were friends, I don't think he did any engineering on Classical Gas. He said this tune was a filler piece. Williams had some blank space at the end of his latest recording. His manager wanted to fill the space. Mason had no new material though. His manager asked what he was doing for practice. Mason played the guitar part of the tune, telling his manager it was a ditty he composed to practice his classical technique. So, the tune was really an afterthought but it became William's biggest hit. It is a standout piece for Williams. The rest of his music is completely different.
Yeah, I can see that being an excellent intro tune for a news show! In the 70's (or 80's), one of the TV stations in Montreal was doing that with a clip from "One Of These Days" by Pink Floyd! I used to giggle at the thought of all the old folk not aware they were listening to Pink Floyd! lol
Greetings from Oregon. Good job JP. Merry Christmas
Brilliantbeautiful guitar playing, and that change up when the brass comes in excellent.Enjoyed that just a perfect composition.
My sister had the album which was full of fun quirky songs in addition to a couple of beautiful instrumentals like Classical Gas and Sunflower. FYI the album cover is a photo of Mason Williams posing in front of The Bus Book -- a book he published that consisted of one gigantic fold-out photo of a Greyhound bus.
Glenn Campbell, who was a member of The Wrecking Crew, has done a live version for Tv which is available also. The Shadows also covered this after they re-grouped in the 70's.
Hey, please react to Hank Mavin's piece "New Earth". He used to be the lead guitarist for The Shadows.
I first heard this song when Mason Williams re-recorded this song with Manheim Steamroller in the late 80s.
Are we going to hear Tommy Emmanuel's version now? :)
Yes! What a great version!
It would actually be nice to hear it "back to back" with this reaction (while this is fresh in Jason's ears).
I think it sounds better just on guitar like that, but maybe Tommy Emmanuel just makes everything sound better?
@@sicko_the_ew Tommy plays the guitar part. But then also tries to play all the other parts too.
Or how about Rick Wakeman's stab at it.
As others have said, there are many covers of this classic instrumental. I tried to play it back when I was learning classical guitar. It's a moderately difficult song. For something completely different, look up Weird Al playing it on his accordion.
Mason Williams' connection with the Smothers Brothers helped him connect with Glen Campbell, who got his start as part of the Wrecking Crew.
I first heard this at Pontardawe folk club back in the '80s, when one of the regulars was playing it as a sort of warm-up at an open mic evening. It had a deliciously hippy vibe and as I considered myself something of a hippy at the time, I asked what it was. It's been on my putative playlist ever since.
A classic (and oddball) hit. Yes, another Wrecking Crew involved recording.
This is always a good listen. Great guitar work with just the right amount of orchestration. I've watched people try to play this on guitar and fumble. I'm not a guitarist so I can't say for sure but it looks difficult. Great way to start off the day.
Ahh the song Justin "Back in my Day" 😉
So many of us tried to play !! And here are some great old TV show spots of the day if you don't mind Justin. 👍🎼🎶 ...
th-cam.com/video/3NE6X4IQNA4/w-d-xo.html .... On the Smothers Brothers
th-cam.com/video/f0PWA6hJugI/w-d-xo.html ...
Enjoy all ☺
Bought the album in the 60s, loved it then love it now. Thank you thank you!
Mason also did a few sketches with the Smothers Brothers, perhaps written by Steve Martin or Rob Reiner. Our own americanized Bonzo Dog Band comic/musician. The 60's look better today than I remember them.
Another big instrumental from this same year is the theme to "Hawaii Five-O" - the opening of the original TV show was epic with the song synced up with Jack Lord's turn to the camera at the top of the Ilikai hotel in Honolulu. The Ventures had a hit single with the tune.
A perennial fave since younger daze, like when it came out. Great mood shifts, triumphant, foreboding, determination, I don't know what the heck 😅
Great composition and guitar work!
I have always really liked this song. It used to be played on the radio a lot. Classical Gas is not that difficult to play, if you're comfortable with fingerstyle picking. I figured out how to play it years ago. I did not know that the Wrecking Crew was on this. Interesting. I don't know if the rest of The Mason Williams Phonograph Record sounds like this, as I have never heard it. But years ago my girlfriend bought a Mason Williams album called Them Poems, and it is a cool record, and sounds nothing like Classical Gas. It is a collection of poems/songs done without musical accompaniment, just Mason Williams sort of rapping these short poems. We used to listen to it quite a bit and laugh cuz it's very funny. It is very cool if you like that sort of thing. It's like old time country/hillbilly sort of delivery. The poems all have names like Them Hog Liver Likers, Them Banjo Pickers, Them Beaver Cleavers. I believe Them Hog Liver Likers is on Spotify. You should check it out JP. It's a different side of Mason Williams.
So would Mason be lauded or cancelled today for that song about panties?
Well this song by Mason has been a favourite across 3 generations of my family . We could say that it’s timeless .
Now symphonic / orchestral arrangements are not new in popular music and particularly prog .
So , without banging on too much , can I just say :
Howard Werth and AUDIENCE -
Album :- The House on the Hill
Track :- Raviole where Howard takes the lead playing classical guitar ( as he does on all their tunes ) , with the London Symphony Orchestra . Another classically flavoured instrumental of great quality and an unexpected gem 👍
Nice enough little ditty, though it's lost some of it's impact on me having heard it about a trillion times... A very popular tune, and it's been covered by everyone and his dog, Including our Rick.
This was my favorite song for a long time, and the album was among mostly prog albums. While I listened to the other songs, none were as stand-out gorgeous as this American answer to Rodrigo...also worth reviewing along with Satie's stout Gnossiennes. There are some fun videos of Mason performing. Mr. Emmanuel also does a great version, as I recoil. One thing I have surmised over life is this: Those Williamses sure play a damn good guitar.
I've always liked this instrumental. I think it may have even been one of the few 45s I purchased way back in the day. It's just a cool little piece. Back in the AM radio days, I think the station I listened to would play this as filler until the news broadcast came in at the top of the hour.
I heard that piece often, but never knew who was behind it. thanks.
I see it charted in UK in 68. I missed it then, but picked it up from a mate in the early 70s, and played it a lot. It was just a one hit single.I didn't know there was an album around. Great little instrumental, there were quite a few around at that time, quite a few from TV shows. Most of them were pretty good a guy called Johnny Pearson produced a lot of the UK ones. Great call.
Thank you!
I had completely forgotten about this piece! It's one everyone who lived through the 60s knows. Now I've put the album, which is charmingly dated based on Spot checking it on Spotify, on my want list.
Sometimes I wish I could “Like” some your videos more than once. I have just watched this video and your reaction to Gordon Lightfoot’s “Song for a Winter’s Night”. I love both of these songs and it made me really happy to see your reactions to both. Thanks!
I appreciate your words and sentiment Darryl :) Thank you so much
Sincere reaction.
Listen to this with Glenn Campbell and full orchestra. Outstanding!
Interesting that you said this could be used as a movie score as it was recently used in the Netflix miniseries The Queens Gambit as a visual montage played.
That was a quality tune and all of sudden it made me realise that British guitarist Gordon Giltrap probably must have heard it and used it as an inspiration for his string of 70s album because they pretty much do the same thing, but arranged a little bit tighter / smoother, as Mason Williams does here. On Classical Gas the arrangement is basically based on what Mason Williams is playing, so the strings and the brass pretty much following his lead. Giltrap and his team did that a lot as well but did it, IMHO, a bit more sophisticated. Just check out this track from his Perilous Journey album (BTW, that has an ace rhythm section with John G. Perry on bass and Simon Philips on drums) th-cam.com/video/jkW0X62WPgA/w-d-xo.html
Check out Glen Campbell playing the William Tell Overture on 12 string guitar, with a full orchestra. Glen was a member of the Wrecking Crew.
Justin picks another classic! Great choice - but I think I can trump you on that. Back in the mid-70s there was a brilliant guitarist here in the UK, who never got the respect he deserved, although he carved out a respectable career for himself. But one track in particular was his piece de resistance, and it towered over anything else he did subsequently - no matter what else he did that was brilliant, he could never equal the sparkle and fizz of the playing on this track.
So now, JP, I urge you, as a sequel if you like to Clsssical Gas, to check out another track in very much the same vein. The name is Gordon Giltrap, and the song is Heartsong. Again, it may have a certain ring of familiarity about it, as it was for several years used as the theme tune for a UK BBC travelogue programme called Holiday (followed by the number of the year, e.g. Hoilday 76, etc. - although you may well not have got that one over there).
Mason Williams premiered "Classical Gas" in 1968 on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", but it was accompanied by This Movie - 3000 years of Art in 3 minutes:
th-cam.com/video/viyufRQKlto/w-d-xo.html
This appeared a 2nd time on The Smothers Brothers, It was a Smash Hit! He then formed it Live in other Shows. There is a video of him, with cutout musicians, where his is also playing (?) the other instruments.
The Original video has since been reconstructed with Fresh images of most of those artworks, and some slight alterations, here:
th-cam.com/video/qOgjsuxTDx8/w-d-xo.html
The Music was not only a Hit, but the Movie itself inspired others to do similar things visually, I myself was recently inspired. See my "Two Hundred 2024 Memes in 40 seconds" - a visual rollercoaster.
th-cam.com/video/O_U87wMeTeY/w-d-xo.html
This is awesome. Another good one of this is Jim Stanford playing this live and his comedy routine is cry your eyes out funny.
Tommy Emmanuel, Australian, shows absurb guitar skills - a must to react. My other favorite guitar/songwriting/vocalist artist of the century is Chris Rea....can never under plug his greatness. I remember Clasical Gas was used in Cheaper By The Dozen (2003) and The Dish, a totally brilliant Australian Movie starring Sam Neil based on the Australian Satellite Dish used to transmit the moon landing pictures. Was also a term used by one fo the great composers who had severe flatulence.
Al Hirt - Cotton Candy or Java, Lonnie Mack - Memphis, The Champs - Tequila, a couple more to check out, same era, all instrumental. Of the 3, I think you would really like Al Hirt best.
This was so amazing at the time. Am curious to see what you think of it. Will add more after hearing your comments.
So glad you liked it. I know of nothing else by him, but I'm sure anything he played was good.
Check out Tommy Emmanuel's version of this. He redefines what you can do with six wires and a plank! Also, just had the 50th anniversary of my introduction to Gentle Giant at Sheffield City Hall, december 15th 1972. Still love 'em. Keep up the good work!
There’s a clip somewhere of Hackett playing this, 2x fantastic.
Haven't heard this in a very very long time. LOL I liked it then and like it even more now. Yes, please check out Heart, Minstrel Wind. It is hauntingly beautiful!
Cheers
I saw this when it appeared on Top Of The Pops in Britain back in the 60s. Still a favourite of mine after all these years. Any chance od "De Futura" by Magma soon? 😃👍👍👍👍👍
A lot of great tracks on this album; next suggestion (it's also a vocal) Longtime Blues
Cool song. It played in regular rotation on AM radio when it came out.
Kinda reminds me of 'Alone Again Or' by Love. I don't know which came first.
That was a gas, man. Other instrumentals from the sixties? Hawaii-Five 0, Elephant Walk, Winchester Cathedral, any Ventures surf rock song (Walk Don’t Run), any Herb Alpert song….
Ps, I was going to make a flatulence joke, but I’m above that sort of thing. Recommend Bob Seger’s Against the Wind.
Winchester Cathedral wasn't an instrumental when I heard it but perhaps there was an instrumental version as well. "Winchester Cathedral, you're bringing me down, ah beau dee ah doh..."
Is it theme from A Summerplace?
Every time I hear it, it takes me back to a grocery or department store and I want to buy everything.
Also Theme from Romeo and Juliet.
Mannix theme song, Pink Panther, Peter Gunn, Rockford Files…
@@-davidolivares Theme from a Summer Place? That takes me back. Percy Faith and his orchestra are waving to me now.
That's 'Baby Elephant Walk'.......
The guitar part is considered VERY difficult - and there’s an Acoustic version as well.
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This whole album was a beloved part of my childhood and no it's not all like Classical Gas at all. It's got some really silly songs like The Prince's Panties and some quite beautiful songs like Here Am I, Wanderlove and Sunflower which might have the longest whistle intro in musical history. Now you're intrigued, aren't you? 😊
'The Wrecking Crew' is a bit of a misnomer. They did not exist as an entity as such. There exists no team photograph. The term began to be used as a catch-all of the numerous session musicians who at various times and in different combinations happened to appear on quality popular works by various artists.... Listening to this I guess that that's Hal Blaine on drums. Bass by someone else who was associated with the 'Wrecking Crew'. Otherwise, there's strings and brass arranged by Mike Post.
Weird Al has a great accordeon version of this. Amazing musician!